Achter de Möhl

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The Achter de Möhl is a district of the independent city of Flensburg , which until 1875 formed the independent rural community of Fischerhof . It adjoins the Johannisviertel of Flensburg's old town immediately to the south and is located in today's Sandberg district . The alternative name Fischerhof ( Danish : Fiskergården ) has now been forgotten. Incidentally, there is no connection to the existing Achter de (Ole) Möhl street in Harrislee .

history

Street sign for Fischergasse in the Achter de Möhl district

When the trading center Flensburg was granted town charter in 1284, the sovereign water mill as well as the associated pent-up mill ponds were excluded. These were administered by the Flensburg Office, to which the city itself did not belong. The once important fishery in the mill ponds was leased and the tenant's residence became the nucleus of the settlement. In 1793 the merchant Peter Jensen the Elder bought the fisherman's farm. With the lifting of the building ban on the city field in 1796, the lands belonging to the city could also be built on in this area. In 1800 there were already 16 houses at the Fischerhof.

The Fischerhof continued to develop structurally from the end of the 18th century. The area grew closer and closer to the city. The urban area east of the Kleiner Mühlenteich was finally named Achter de Möhl (behind the mill, namely the royal water mill). The area of ​​the Fischerhof or Achter de Möhl gained importance as the administrative center of the Flensburg office. The official administration had moved over from Duburg in 1801 . The official prison was set up at the southern end of the settlement. In the 19th century the area developed into a workers' suburb. A new school for children from the town and the Fischerhof area was built there in 1825. After 1867, the Flensburg district had its administrative headquarters in the historic building complex (today Waitzstrasse 1 ff.). After the district was dissolved, some of the Schleswig-Flensburg district's offices remained on site. In the 1980s, the complex was expanded to include the new state central library.

After 1867, the Fischerhof established itself as an independent rural community , although it had long since grown into the city and the border partly went through the middle of the main street (today's Waitzstraße). It was not incorporated into Flensburg until 1874. The name Fischerhof was more and more forgotten, especially since not even a street name (in 1880 the old main street was renamed after the historian Georg Waitz , who was born in Flensburg ) reminds of him.

Although the old Fischerhof remained the administrative headquarters and location of several commercial operations, the decay began in the 1960s, especially in the densely built-up working-class area around Mittelstrasse and Teichstrasse. However, the expansion of the nearby technical college and university , which had been concentrated and significantly expanded on the nearby Sandberg since the 1990s, turned the tide. Since then, the neighborhood has been a popular residential area, especially among students, due to its proximity to both universities and the city ​​center .

Apart from Waitzstrasse, Mittelstrasse, Teichstrasse, Fischergasse, Blumenstrasse and Munktetoft belong to the district. For three generations (from 1907 to 1980) there was the Detert slaughterhouse in Mittelstrasse. A large number of small dealers, tradespeople and craftsmen (there were even small cinema events) made Achter de Möhl perceived as a "closed" district until the 1970s.

literature

  • Gerret L. Schlaber: From the country to the district. Flensburg's Stadtfeld and the incorporated villages in pictures and words approx. 1860-1930. Flensburg 2009, ISBN 978-87-89178-73-8 , p. 49ff.
  • Karl Weigand: Flensburg Atlas. The city of Flensburg in the German-Danish border region, past and present. Flensburg 1978.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ City districts, published by the City of Flensburg ( Memento from February 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ Flensburger Tageblatt : Where Harrislee is still a village , September 10, 2011; accessed on: January 27, 2019
  3. ^ Dieter Pust : Flensburg street names . Society for Flensburg City History, Flensburg 2005, article: Mittelstrasse
  4. ^ Dieter Pust : Flensburg street names . Society for Flensburg City History, Flensburg 2005, article: Mittelstrasse
  5. ^ Writings of the Society for Flensburg City History (ed.): Flensburg in history and present . Flensburg 1972, p. 413

Web links

Commons : Achter de Möhl  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 54 ° 47 '  N , 9 ° 26'  E